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What
is Cultural Studies?
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What
is Religious Studies?
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What
is the career prospect of Cultural Studies graduates?
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What
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What
are the differences between Cultural Studies and the
CLC subject (Chinese Language and Culture 中國語文及文化科)
currently taught in Hong Kong's Secondary School Form
6 and Form 7?
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The
CLC subject is mainly interested in the understanding of
traditional Chinese culture, aiming at developing students’
cultural values with a strong foundation on Chinese culture,
literature, and philosophy. Cultural Studies, however, is
not based on any single national culture, and it is more
interested in contemporary cultural happenings than traditional
thinking. It analyzes everyday experience to decode the ideological
structure of contemporary culture, an approach that can also
be found in some areas of the current CLC subject, as shown
in the question related to travel and culture in the Year
2003 CLC Advanced Level examination. Yet, Cultural Studies
has a much broader and complex view on “culture,” concerning
not only culture in the narrow sense but also social structure
and ideological struggles between different forces; hence
providing students new and extensive views toward humanity
at large. |
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What
are the relationships between Religious Studies and
Cultural Studies?
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Religious
Studies and Cultural Studies at CU are two independent programs
housed under the CRS Department, but the syllabi are designed
in a way that interaction between the two programs are substantial,
with the aim of broadening the perspectives of students of
both programs in the study of culture, which has always been
strongly rooted in religions. For the Cultural Studies program,
we particularly believe that an in-depth understanding of
religious structures and thinking are important for us to
understand today’s global politics, in which the secular
and the religious are increasingly intertwined. |
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What
are the differences between Cultural Studies and the
culture related subjects in Communication, Sociology,
and Anthropology?
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There
are many interactions between these disciplines, and they
share some common concerns in the study of the mechanism
of culture. While it is difficult to draw clear boundaries
among them, Cultural Studies self-avowedly practices interdisciplinary
thinking and methodologies, while most other disciplines
have their more concrete professional and academic confines.
More specifically for the Cultural Studies program at CUHK,
we are based in the Arts Faculty and therefore study culture
more from a humanities perspective. While social sciences
based subjects often study society through “scientific”
research methods, our program is more interested in studying
texts and representations (literature, films, TV programs,
plays, sports, space, advertising, myths etc.), and we are
committed in constantly rethinking our methodology. |
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What
are the admission requirements?
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Same
as the general CU admission requirements. |
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Any
admission interviews?
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The
program holds admission interviews every year, usually around
June and July. |
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What
is the medium of instruction?
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We
use both Chinese and English, in terms of lectures, readings,
and writings. |
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